Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has said that the Gujarat Titans (GT) won’t release any of their big-ticket players despite their poor show in IPL 2025. While saying that, Rashid Khan failed to perform in the recently concluded IPL season, he added that the franchise won’t let go of the Afghanistan spinner as well. With 18 points from 14 games, GT finished third in the IPL 2025 points table as well.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “I think they will not change anything. They will not let go of anyone. Everyone knows that the top three score all the runs and there are slight problems from No. 4 to No. 6, Rashid Khan hasn’t been in that good form, and Kagiso Rabada hasn’t really pulled his weight in the side.”
“However, what will you change? You cannot change anything. What will you gain by releasing and reacquiring anyone? You are not going to release Rashid, although Rashid is the most expensive, and if you look at players who have performed the least, you feel it’s Rashid Khan,” he further added.
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“However, he is Rashid. You ask karamati Khan to stay even if he has one or two bad years because the day he performs, he will win you the match. Even when he was not performing well this season, when he performed in one match, he won them that match. So he has got that kind of quality and pedigree,” he again shared.
However, Aakash Chopra also added that the Gujarat Titans are unlikely to release Sherfane Rutherford, Sai Kishore, Arshad Khan and Washington Sundar either as well.
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“You will keep Sherfane Rutherford as well. What will you gain by releasing him? Then, whether it’s Sai Kishore or Arshad Khan, they have also done decently. I am saying Washington Sundar has also done decently whenever he has gotten a chance,” he said.
“There is no need to talk about Sai Sudharsan. Whether you talk about Jos Buttler, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna or Shubman Gill, what will you change? In my opinion, Gujarat won’t change anything. They need a little solidity in the middle order. They will try to get that, but I doubt that they will let people go,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
